On Saturday, 9 July 2016 at 12:56:48 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
After quite some preliminary discussions and preparations, new
D Improvement Proposals handling process is finally happenning.
Please read description and explanation here:
https://github.com/dlang/DIPs
## Rationale
There are two main goals for going this way:
1) Ensure communication between language authors and DIP
authors, establish better sense of actually contributing as
opposed to simply throwing ideas into the black box.
2) Improve overall quality of DIP documents to the point where
language authors can reasonably review them without spending
too much time on trivialities.
Additional benefit I am hoping for is to have a centralized
place to subscribe to learn about all coming major changes
coming to language for those who can't keep up with NG
regularly.
## Old DIPs
Right now https://github.com/dlang/DIPs repository contains
archive folder with already implemented proposals imported from
wiki (please tell me if there are any other already implemented
DIPs that were not marked as such in wiki).
All authors of existing DIPs who want to keep pursuing the idea
will have to re-submit them as a pull requests towards new
repo. This is required so that we can filter abandoned
proposals and focus on documents that have active authors
backing them.
## DIP manager
I will act as a DIP manager for the time being. Please note
that role of DIP manager does not imply any decision power
regarding DIP approval, it remains an exclusive domain of
language authors.
Can the new DIP process be used to evaluate library proposals?
That way a high level design could be fleshed out and approved
before the contributor goes too far with implementing a design
which would be rejected.
